[spectre] (fwd) 'The Forgotten Pioneer Movement', Perf. + Exh., Berlin 3.10. – 29.11.

[Andreas Broeckmann]

THE FORGOTTEN PIONEER MOVEMENT

3.10. – 29.11.2014
Opening 2.10.2014

District invites to explore the experiences of the last, transitional 
European pioneer generation between socialism and post-socialism in the 
interdisciplinary performance and exhibition project The Forgotten 
Pioneer Movement on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of 
the Berlin wall.

Participants
Lina Albrikienė, Ēriks Apaļais, Ieva Astahovska & Inga Lace, bankleer, 
Ana Bogdanović, [BLOK] (Ivana Hanaček, Ana Kutleša, Vesna Vuković), 
Mitya Churikov, CORO Collective, Kasia Fudakowski, Sophie Goltz, Gal 
Kirn, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Wilhelm Klotzek & David Polzin, Snejana Krasteva & 
Peter Tzanev, Kate Krolle & Maya Mikelsone, Anchi Cheng & Kristina Leko 
& Jonathan Ryall & Lisa Schwalb, Marina Naprushkina, Rasa Navickaitė, 
Newsreel front, Alexandra Pirici (& Madalina Dan, Farid Fairuz, Manuel 
Pelmuş), Marta Popivoda, Claudia Rößger, Elske Rosenfeld, Anca Rujoiu & 
Madalina Zaharia, Anna Till & Juliane Schmidt, SKILLS, VIP, Ana 
Vujanović, Nikola Vukobratović, ŽemAt (Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė, Domaš Noreika, 
Eglė Ambrasaitė, Aušra Vismantaitė, Noah Brehmer, Eglė Mikalajūnė) and 
others

Curated by
Ulrike Gerhardt and Susanne Husse
in conversation with Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė, Ana Bogdanović, Snejana 
Krasteva, Eglė Mikalajūnė, Maya Mikelsone, Anca Rujoiu and [BLOK]

Opening: October 2nd, 2014,
2pm bankleer: performance at Bundestag
6pm exhibition opening, and
7pm SKILLS: performance at District

3.10. – 29.11.2014 performances all over Berlin, exhibition and public 
seminar at District


We understand that our generation’s mission is to revise this 
strategically demonized past.
Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė (artist and curator, Lithuania)

The Forgotten Pioneer Movement (TFPM) is an interdisciplinary 
performance and exhibition project about the experiences of the last, 
transitional generation between socialism and post-socialism. As a 
fictional movement, TFPM addresses the impact and the societal 
perspectives of the “last pioneers”: a generation whose childhood and 
youth is linked to the times of the Perestroika and the ‘pOst-Western’ 
Europe of the 1990s.

As a modernist phenomenon and ex-symbol of childhood and adolescent 
identification, the figure of the pioneer lends itself to an 
investigation of the many inscriptions of educational institutions and 
publicly mobilized ideologies in the former “East” and “West”. TFPM 
combines strategies and discourses from visual as well as performative 
arts and cultural theory in order to approach “the future behind us”, 
observed by Edit András, as a pan-european experience beyond 
geopolitical classifications. 25 years after the fall of the Berlin 
wall, TFPM suggests new constellations between this remote future and 
insignia of the present.

Set #A Performances
bankleer, Kasia Fudakowski, Snejana Krasteva & Peter Tzanev, Kate Krolle 
& Maya Mikelsone, Domaš Noreika / ŽemAt, Alexandra Pirici, Elske 
Rosenfeld, Juliane Schmidt & Anna Till, SKILLS, VIP

Guided by the cultural technique of the ‘psychodrama’, SET #A reacts 
upon places in the former East and former West of Berlin to re-connect 
collective and individual trajectories of memory based on the figure of 
the ex-pioneer. The performances activate instants and gestures of 
historical and political discontinuity, emphasizing their transformative 
momentum. The participating persons, objects and architectures become 
representatives for not yet articulated, opaque experiences.

The complete performance programme can be found here.

http://www.district-berlin.com/detail_full.php?categorie_id=19&article_id=178&lang=en

Set # A is realized in collaboration with Galerie M, the youth center 
FAIR and HAU Hebbel am Ufer.

Set # B Exhibition
Lina Albrikienė, Ēriks Apaļais, bankleer, Mitya Churikov, CORO 
Collective, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Wilhelm Klotzek & David Polzin, Marina 
Naprushkina, Claudia Rößger, ŽemAt

During the exhibition, objects, styles and words that were unnoticed, 
negated or simply unknown in the context of “pOst-Western” 
transformation will be collected and reconfigured as indexical traces. 
In order to understand the processes of historicizing the 'socialist / 
post-socialist experience' beyond any mythologizing absorption, TFPM 
suggests new connections between that remote future and specific 
experiences of the present.

Set # B is complemented by the Appendix Collection, a research station 
with reference materials from the participants, the archive transitland: 
Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009 (curated by Edit 
András and Margarita Dorovska) and the TFPM video archive with Lina 
Albrikienė, bankleer, Vlad Basalici, Eglė Budvytytė, Irina Botea, 
Cooltūristės, Anna Jermolaewa, Szabolcs Kisspál, Wilhelm Klotzek, Jumana 
Manna & Sille Storihle, VIP, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Katarina Zdjelar, a.o.

Set # B is realized in collaboration with Balassi Institut – Collegium 
Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB).

Set #C Public Seminar - The Pioneer Camp of ReVision
Ieva Astahovska, Nika Autor / Newsreel front, Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė / ŽemAt, 
[BLOK] (Ivana Hanaček, Ana Kutleša, Vesna Vuković), Ana Bogdanović, 
Sophie Goltz, Gal Kirn, Inga Lāce, Kristina Leko & Anchi Cheng & 
Jonathan Ryall & Lisa Schwalb, Rasa Navickaitė, Marta Popivoda, Anca 
Rujoiu, Ana Vujanović, Nikola Vukobratović, Madalina Zaharia and others

The Pioneer Camp of ReVision is a public seminar taking place from 
October 3rd through October 5th 2014 at District and different locations 
in Berlin. It includes lectures, workshops, discussions, artist talks, 
performances and film screenings. In this context a revision of 
questions, concepts and terminologies of The Forgotten Pioneer Movement 
will be initiated. Co-organized by Zagreb curators’ collective [BLOK] 
and art historian Ana Bogdanović (University of Belgrade), The Pioneer 
Camp of ReVision addresses cultural theory ranging from the ‘presence of 
the absent’ and the critical re-evaluation of socialist projects to the 
analysis of generational experience.

The complete Pioneer Camp of ReVision programme can be found here.

Set # C is realized in collaboration with [BLOK] and the Latvian Centre 
for Contemporay Art, Riga.


The Forgotten Pioneer Movement is a project of District Kunst- und 
Kulturförderung Berlin, funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin and BKJ 
funding programme Künste Öffnen Welten.

The Forgotten Pioneer Movement is realised in cooperation with [BLOK],  
Balassi Institut – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB), Latvian Centre 
for Contemporay Art, Riga, Galerie M, FAIR and Galerie im Turm and with 
friendly support by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Maxim Gorki Theater, Stiftung 
Kunstfonds, Ehemaliges Tschechoslowakisches Kulturinstitut, Artseco, 
CinePlus, deinestadtklebt.de and Estrel Hotel.

More information here.

http://www.district-berlin.com/detail_full.php?categorie_id=19&article_id=178&lang=en